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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Press \Press\, v. i. 1. To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push crowd, or urge with steady force. 2. To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach. They pressed upon him for to touch him --Mark iii. 10. 3. To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as an argument presses upon the judgment. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Press \Press\, n. [F. presse. See 4th {Press}.] 1. An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken sometimes the place or building containing a press or presses. Note: Presses are differently constructed for various purposes in the arts, their specific uses being commonly designated; as a cotton press, a wine press, a cider press, a copying press, etc See {Drill press}. 2. Specifically, a printing press. 3. The art or business of printing and publishing; hence printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them as a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pressed}; p. pr & vb n. {Pressing}.] [F. presser, fr L. pressare to press, fr premere pressum to press. Cf {Print}, v.] 1. To urge, or act upon with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon to squeeze; to compress; as we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd. Good measure, pressed down and shaken together. --Luke vi 38. 2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of to squeeze out or express, from something From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. --Gen. xl 11. 3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as to press clothes. 4. To embrace closely; to hug. Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope. 5. To oppress; to bear hard upon Press not a falling man too far --Shak. 6. To straiten; to distress; as to be pressed with want or hunger. 7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over to constrain; to force; to compel. Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. --Acts xviii. 5. 8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as to press divine truth on an audience. He pressed a letter upon me within this hour. --Dryden. Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison. 9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on to ply hard; as to press a horse in a race. The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. --Esther viii. 14. Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive and strike denote a sudden impulse of force. {Pressed brick}. See under {Brick}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Press \Press\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An East Indian insectivore ({Tupaia ferruginea}). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Press \Press\, v. t. [Corrupt. fr prest ready money advanced, a loan; hence earnest money given soldiers on entering service. See {Prest}, n.] To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress. To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Press \Press\, n. [For prest, confused with press.] A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. I have misused the king's press. --Shak. {Press gang}, or {Pressgang}, a detachment of seamen under the command of an officer empowered to force men into the naval service. See {Impress gang}, under {Impress}. {Press money}, money paid to a man enlisted into public service. See {Prest money}, under {Prest}, a. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: press n 1: newspaper writers and photographers [syn: {fourth estate}] 2: the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters" [syn: {imperativeness}, {insistence}, {insistency}, {pressure}] 3: printed matter in the form of newspapers or magazines [syn: {public press}] 4: a machine used for printing [syn: {printing press}] 5: a dense crowd of people [syn: {crush}, {jam}] 6: with rails or hooks for hanging clothes [syn: {wardrobe}, {closet}] 7: clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use 8: any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids 9: a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead [syn: {military press}] 10: the act of pressing; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding" [syn: {pressure}, {pressing}] v 1: exert pressure or force to or upon "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" 2: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies" [syn: {urge}, {urge on}, {exhort}] 3: to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind" [syn: {weigh}] 4: place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure; "pressed flowers" 5: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips" [syn: {compress}, {constrict}, {squeeze}, {compact}, {contract}] 6: crowd closely; "The crowds pressed along the street" 7: create by pressing: "Press little holes into the soft clay" 8: exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end "The liberal party pushed for reforms" [syn: {push}] 9: be urgent; "This is a pressing problem" 10: press from a plastic, as of records [syn: {press out}] 11: lift weights [syn: {weightlift}] 12: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" [syn: {bid}, {beseech}, {entreat}, {adjure}]
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